At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...

Stalin was then buried with full honours beside Lenin. Russia’s former allies from the Second World War sent condolences, with France declaring three days of official mourning. Pope Pius XII was ...

It was a departure from what Marx had actually said in his book. Now, Lenin goes and Stalin comes. What does he do? I need not tell the House—every one of you is aware—as to what Stalin did.

By the time of his death in 1924, Lenin had created a one-party State and an elaborate system of control. Under Joseph Stalin, the pace of change accelerated as he sought to convert the country ...

"Lenin and the whole Bolshevik Party lived off that money until the [1917] revolution." Sebag Montefiore says that the young Stalin and the troubled Andor bear striking similarities: "A young man ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...